mental disorders

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mental disorders

by vertigo05 » Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:30 am
The symptoms of mental disorders are behavioral, cognitive, or emotional problems. Some patients with mental disorders can be effectively treated with psychotherapy, but it is now known that in some patients, mental disorders result from chemical imbalances affecting the brain. Thus, these patients can be effectively treated only with medication that will reduce or correct the imbalance.
The argument depends on assuming which one of the following?

A) Treatment by psychotherapy can produce no effective reduction in or correction of chemical imbalances that cause mental disorders.

B) Treatment with medication always shows faster results for patients with mental disorders than does treatment with psychotherapy.

C) Most mental disorders are not the result of chemical imbalances affecting the brain.

D) Medication is always more effective in treating patients with mental disorders than is psychotherapy.

E) Treatment with psychotherapy has no effect on mental disorders other than a reduction of the symptoms.
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by scoobydooby » Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:52 am
conclusion: chemical imbalance induced mental disorders can only be cured by medication

A. negate: if psychotherapy can effectively treat chemical imbalance induced mental disorder, then the argument falls apart. A is the assumption

B. how fast results can be achieved is out of scope

C. causes of mental disorder is out of scope

D. too broad. conclusion is about curing chemical imbalance induced menatl disorders only

E. effects of psychotherapy is out of scope.

hence, A

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by thought » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:02 am
My rephrasing of the argument:

Because some patients have chemical mental disorders, these patients can be effectively treated only with medication (and not with psychotherapy).

The assumption is that psychotherapy cannot effectively treat chemical mental disorders.

A) Closest to what were looking for: Psychotherapy cannot effectively reduce/correct/treat chemical mental disorders.

Also if we negate this: Psychotherapy CAN effectively treat chemical mental disorders, the argument falls apart, so we know this assumption is necessary.

B) The argument doesn't assume this. In fact, the argument implies you can't directly compare the two. Treatment with medication is reserved for chemical cases, unlike treatment with psychotherapy.

C) The argument deals mainly with the TREATMENT of mental disorders.

D) The argument doesn't assume this -- in fact it seems to say that medication is only more effective in chemical cases.

E) Goes against the argument -- the argument says treatment with psychotherapy IS effective for some patients with mental disorders.

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Re: mental disorders

by karmayogi » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:28 am
1. Some patients with metal disorders can be effectively treated with psychotherapy.
2. Some patients mental disorders result from chemical imbalance.
3. These patients, suffering from mental disorders result from chemical imbalance, can be effectively treated ONLY with medication that will reduce or correct the imbalance.

“ONLY” is an important word in #3, which means the patients suffering from mental disorders result from chemical imbalance can’t be treated successfully through psychotherapy treatment. Option A is just a paraphrase of the same.
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by kris77 » Fri May 13, 2016 10:34 pm
I am pretty sure that the right Answer is A.